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Michael Hutchinson

YOU WONT BELIEVE: The better it is the less there is to talk about the impossible task of the post ride chat - You Need To See This

Dr Hutch on a bike in a collage near a man with a speech bubble.

On any occasion when I come home from a ride and Mrs Doc is around, she will always ask me how the ride was. For any ride where I didn't find an envelope full of cash or get abducted by aliens, I reply, "It was fine."

I offer no further information, and she demands none. When she gets back from a run (she's currently training for an ultra-marathon) we do the same routine in reverse. It's not that we don't care-it's simply that we know how unrewarding asking about a ride or a run is.

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